Action Communities

Action communities allow customers to perform traffic engineering without IP Transit NOC involvement. If you need any help using these communities please contact our NOC.

Blackhole Community

The following community is used to blackhole specific IP addresses. We only allow /32 prefix announcements to be blackholed.

Action Community
Blackhole (/32 prefix) 64098:666

Action Community Format

AS64098 standard action communities are formatted as our ASN followed by a 4 digit action code. The only exception to this is our blackhole community.

The community string is formatted as follows:

Field Value
ASN 64098
Action Field (64098:Xxxx) Action to take
Peer Type Field (64098:xXxx) Peer types to act upon
Continent Field (64098:xxXx) Continent to apply action
Region Field (64098:xxxX) Region to apply action

Field Value Options

The following values can be used to build a complete action community string.

Note: localpref values can not be targeted and should use a peer type, continent and region value of 0.

Value Action Peer Type Continent Region
0 ALL ALL
1 Prepend One Time Transit ACT
2 Prepend Two Times Transit – Domestic NSW
3 Prepend Three Times Peers – Multilateral VIC
4 Set localpref 80 Australia SA
5 Set localpref 90 Customers
6 Set localpref 100
7 QLD
8 Set no-export WA
9 Do not export

Action Community Examples

Action Community
Prepend x 1 to all Transit 64098:1100
Prepend x 2 to all Transit 64098:2100
Prepend x 3 to all Transit 64098:3100
Set no-export to all Transit 64098:8100
Do not export to all Transit 64098:9100
Prepend x 1 to AU Domestic Transit 64098:1240
Prepend x 2 to AU Domestic Transit 64098:2240
Prepend x 3 to AU Domestic Transit 64098:3240
Set no-export to AU Domestic Transit 64098:8240
Do not export to AU Domestic Transit 64098:9240
Prepend 1 x to NSW Multilateral Peers 64098:1342
Set localpref to 80 64098:4000
Do not export to Transit in QLD 64098:9247

Carrier Communities

The following carrier specific communities are available via our network.

Carrier Action Community
Telstra Prepend 1221 1 time to peers 1221:1001
Telstra Prepend 1221 2 times to peers 1221:1002
Telstra Prepend 1221 3 times to peers 1221:1003
Telstra Do not export outside of AU (AS1221 Only) 1221:110

Information Communities

Information communities show where and how a prefix was learned and are useful for filtering and analysis of routing issues.

Information Community Format

Our information communities are structured in a similar manner to our action communities except they have 5 digits instead of 4.

The information community strings are formatted as follows:

Field Value
ASN 64098
Peer Type (64098:Xxxxx) Peer type prefix learned from
Continent (64098:xXxxx) Continent prefix learned in
Region (64098:xxXxx) Region prefix learned in
POP (64098:xxxXX) POP prefix learned in

Field Value Options

The following values can be used to decode a complete information community string.

Value Peer Type Continent Region (AU)
0 ALL ALL
1 Customer
2 Peer – Multilateral NSW
3 Peer – Bilateral VIC
4 Transit Australia QLD
5 On-net SA
6 Peer – PNI WA
7 TAS
8 NT
9 ACT

POP List – Australia

 

Value NSW VIC SA QLD WA TAS NT
00 ALL ALL ALL ALL ALL ALL ALL
01 NEXTDC S1 NEXTDC M1 YOURDC HAWTHORN NEXTDC B1 NEXTDC P1 NBN 7HOB NEXTDC D1
02 Globalswitch NEXTDC M2 EQUINIX AE1 NEXTDC B2 NEXTDC P2 NBN 7LAU NBN 8DRW
03 EQUINIX SY3 EQUINIX
ME1
Tasmanet DC3
04 EQUINIX SY4 42-24 Derwent Park
05 42-24 Cambridge Park
06 NEXTDC H1

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